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	<title><![CDATA[Subcontracting the First Amendment]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leslie-harris/subcontracting-the-first_b_115065.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>The FCC arguably holds the ears and eyes of American citizens in a kind of public trust, yet over the course of the years the Commission has slowly betrayed that trust by trying to make itself into something more; it wants to be America's morality czar.</p>

<p>The fundamental disconnect between the FCC's official mission and its self-appointed quest as champion of "clean" content traces back the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the <a href="http://blogger.huffingtonpost.com/mt.cgi?__mode=view&amp;_type=entry&amp;id=110551&amp;blog_id=3"><em>Pacifica</em> case</a>. And although <em>Pacifica's</em> relevance in today's...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-08-05T05:12:00-04:00</date_published>
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